Patrick and Dawn Eggleton Just another weblog 
Above is a picture of the people we live and work with each day. It includes all of the NTM teachers, pilots, mechanics, medical staff, supply buyers, finance workers, computer personnel, dorm students, maintenance people, and guest house workers and their families. This team makes it possible for the hundreds of tribal missionaries to do their work of Bible translation and discipleship in the tribes. They represent countries from all over the world. These are the people you have sent us to support through the school. As I look through the picture I don’t see any halos or distinctions that would separate these people. They are simply believers – like you and I – who are willing to be used of God – even if it means traveling 10,000 miles from “home” to do it. Within the next few months a large number of these faces will disappear. Some will have finished the time they committed to serve. Some will return to “homes” for a year of home assignment. Some will be forced to return to live in a more modern culture due to health limitations or family needs. Some will graduate from high school and be forced to leave the country to seek God’s new direction for their lives. The one constant at the PNG support center is change! Perhaps that change will include you one of these days.
While we often ask for prayers for the missionaries in the tribal works, these missionaries also need your prayers. While it is a blessing to work in the midst of this community, these individuals face the same challenges, joys, hurts, and struggles that anyone faces – yet on a foreign soil amidst a culture that is not their own. We are so thankful that God provides the needed grace and strength from day to day to keep this group going.
